Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen

Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen
nation	Norway
birthday	2nd October 1992 (age 27)
place of birth	Bergen , Norway
Career
Pers. Best times	34.41 (500 m)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2018 Pyeongchang 500 m silver 2018 Pyeongchang 1000 m  Individual distance world championships silver 2019 Inzell 500 m bronze 2020 Salt Lake City Team sprint  Sprint World Championships silver 2017 Calgary sprint gold 2018 Changchun sprint  All-around European Championships silver 2019 Klobenstein sprint  European championships silver 2020 Heerenveen Team sprint
Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup November 12, 2010  World Cup victories 7 (including 5 individual wins)  Grand toilet 1. ( 2017/18 )  Total toilet 500 1. ( 2017/18 )  Total toilet 1000 2. ( 2017/18 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  500 meters 4th 0 2  1000 meters 1 2 5  Team competition 2 4th 1
last change: February 21, 2020

Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen (born October 2, 1992 in Bergen ) is a Norwegian speed skater .

Career

Lorentzen had his first international success at the Junior World Championships 2010 in Moscow . There he won the gold medal in the team pursuit. In November 2010 he started the World Cup for the first time in Heerenveen and finished 23rd place over 5000 m, 11th place in the B group over 1000 m and sixth place in the B group over 1500 m. At the Junior World Championships in 2011 in Seinäjoki , he won the bronze medal in the 1500 m and the silver medal in the team pursuit. In the following year he won the gold medal at the Junior World Championships in Obihiro and the gold medal in the team pursuit and came 24th over 1500 m at the individual distance world championships in Heerenveen. In the 2013/14 season he achieved tenth place overall in the 1000m World Cup with four top ten placements. He also achieved his first podium finish in the World Cup in March 2014 in Heerenveen with third place in the team pursuit. His best placings at his first Olympic participation in Sochi in February 2014 were 11th place over 1000 m and fifth place in the team pursuit. At the Sprint World Championships 2015 in Astana he finished 13th and at the Individual Distance World Championships 2015 in Heerenveen he finished 22nd over 1500 m and 18th over 1000 m.

In the following year Lorentzen ran at the sprint world championships in Seoul on the 22nd place and at the single distance world championships in Kolomna on the 20th place over 1000 m. In the 2016/17 season he reached over 1000 m with seven top ten placements, fourth place in the World Cup over 1000 m. He came on the podium for the first time in Berlin with places three and two, each over 1000 m in the World Cup singles. In January 2017 he was fifth in the sprint all- around at the European all- around championship in Heerenveen. The following month he finished 22nd over 1500 m at the Individual Distance World Championships in Gangwon , seventh over 500 m and sixth over 1000 m and won the silver medal at the Sprint World Championships in Calgary . At the beginning of the 2017/18 season he won his first World Cup victory over 500 m in Heerenveen and also took third place over 1000 m and second place in the team pursuit. At the following World Cup in Stavanger he won the 500 m and 1000 m and again took second place in the team pursuit. In the further course of the season he was third in Calgary over 1000 m, and in Erfurt second over 1000 m and first over 500 m. At the season highlight, the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang in February 2018 , he won gold over 500 m, setting a new Olympic record with a time of 34.41 seconds. Four days later he won the silver medal just behind Kjeld Nuis in the 1000 m run . Shortly afterwards, he won his first world title at the Sprint World Championships in Changchun . At the World Cup finals in Minsk he won the team sprint and took third place over 1000 m. At the end of the season he won the overall World Cup and the 500 m World Cup. In the world cup over 1000 m he finished second.

After third and first place over 500 m and second place in the team sprint in Obihiro at the beginning of the 2018/19 season, Lorentzen won the team sprint in Tomaszów Mazowiecki and also took third place there over 500 m and 1000 m. At the all-around European championship in January 2019 in Klobenstein , he won the silver medal in the sprint all-around event. At the individual distance world championships in 2019 in Inzell , he won the silver medal over 500 m and also took fourth place over 1000 m. At the end of February 2019 he was fourth at the Sprint World Championship in Heerenveen . He finished the season in fifth place in the 1000 m World Cup and third in the 500 m World Cup.

Lorentzen was six times Norwegian champion in the sprint all-around competition (2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019), five times over 1000 m (2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019), four times over 2 × 500 m (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) and once over 500 m (2019).

Personal bests

• 500 m: 34.28 sec. (installed on March 10, 2019 in Salt Lake City)
• 1000 m: 1: 06.51 min. (installed on March 9, 2019 in Salt Lake City)
• 1500 m: 1: 44.45 min. (installed on November 15, 2013 in Salt Lake City)
• 3000 m: 3: 49.83 min. (installed on November 2, 2013 in Salt Lake City)
• 5000 m: 6: 39.99 min. (installed on November 7, 2010 in Hamar)
• 10000 m: 14: 40.65 min. (installed on February 23, 2013 in Hamar)

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

• 2014 Sochi : 5th place team pursuit, 11th place 1000 m, 16th place 1500 m, 32nd place 2 × 500 m
• 2018 Pyeongchang : 1st place 500 m, 2nd place 1000 m

Individual distance world championships

• 2012 Heerenveen : 24th place 1500 m
• 2015 Heerenveen : 18th place 1000 m, 22nd place 1500 m
• 2016 Kolomna : 20th place 1000 m
• 2017 Gangwon : 6th place 1000 m, 7th place 500 m, 22nd place 1500 m
• 2019 Inzell : 2nd place 500 m, 4th place 1000 m
• 2020 Salt Lake City : 3rd place team sprint, 4th place 1000 m, 15th place 500 m

Sprint World Championships

• 2015 Astana  : 13th place sprint all-around
• 2016 Seoul  : 22nd place sprint all-around event
• 2017 Calgary  : 2nd place sprint all-around
• 2018 Changchun  : 1st place sprint all-around
• 2019 Heerenveen  : 4th place sprint all-around
• 2020 Hamar  : 5th place sprint all-around

World Cup victories

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	November 10, 2017	Heerenveen	500 m
2.	17th November 2017	Stavanger	500 m
3.	17th November 2017	Stavanger	1000 m
4th	January 21, 2018	Erfurt	500 m
5.	16th November 2018	Obihiro	500 m

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	18th March 2018	Minsk	Team sprint 1
2.	December 9, 2018	Tomaszów Mazowiecki	Team sprint 1

¹With Bjørn Magnussen and Henrik Fagerli Rukke .

Web links

• Profile of Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen on Speedskatingnews
• Profile of Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen on schaatsstatistieken.nl
• Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )